Re: [PATCH 5.10 033/238] md: implement ->set_read_only to hook into BLKROSET processing

[Li Nan]

在 2024/3/26 16:46, Song Liu 写道:
> Hi Li Nan,
>
> Could you please look into this (back port 9674f54e41ff to older stable
> kernels)? If there is no clean back port, I would recommend we not do
> the back port.

There are some conflicts to back port, which are not related to the
modification of this patch. If necessary, let me know and I can adapt and
send it :)

> Thanks,
> Song
>
> On Tue, Mar 26, 2024 at 12:40 AM Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 25, 2024 at 07:26:43AM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
> > > On Mon, Mar 25, 2024 at 02:04:35AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > > > How did we end up backporting all these block layer API changes?
> > >
> > > They were brought in as a dependency for 9674f54e41ff ("md: Don't clear
> > > MD_CLOSING when the raid is about to stop").
> > >
> > > It's possible to work around bringing them during backport, but I
> > > preferred to bring the dependencies instead.
> >
> > I really don't see what these giant backports bring us.  If people
> > want all the changes they'd just be better off on a modern kernel
> > rather than these frankenkernels.  The automatic backporting is
> > gettind way out of hand.  If the MD maintainers want
> > 9674f54e41ff, maybe they can send a tailor made backport?
>
> .

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Thanks,
Nan